Spinoza and Republicanism By Raia Prokhovnik. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xi + 280 pgs.

Anne Oravetz Albert is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of interest include early modern Jewish history, the history of Jewish-Christian relations, and Jewish political thought. Her dissertation, “Sephardi Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam,” is expected to be completed in 2008.